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The Clock of Time

By Jack Finney

E-Book

£P.O.R.

A collection of stunning short fiction from the author of The Body Snatchers.

'It is there...the relentless pressure of a million craving minds on the barrier of Time - and if it should break...'From the author of The Body Snatchers and Time and Again, a collection containing:Such Interesting NeighboursThe Third LevelI'm ScaredCousin Len's Wonderful Adjective CellarOf Missing PersonsSomething in a CloudThere is a Tide...Behind the NewsQuit Zoomin' Those Hands Through the AirA Dash of SpringSecond ChanceContents of the Dead Man's Pocket

Biographical Notes

Jack Finney (1911 - 1995)

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, his given name was John Finney. After the death of his father when he was three years old he was renamed Walter Braden Finney in honour of his father's memory. Despite this, he continued to go by the name "Jack" throughout his life. Finney graduated in 1934 from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and later moved to New York with his family where he worked for an advertising agency. As a writer, Finney's early works were relatively successful, with his first short story, 'The Widow's Walk', winning a contest sponsored by Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1946 and his first novel, 5 Against the House (1954), being turned into a film the year after publication. But he is best know as the author of The Body Snatchers, which became the hugely popular and influential film, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

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ISBN:
9780575093195

Publication date:
30 Nov 2012

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Imprint:
Gateway

Gollancz

Episodes

Christopher Priest

Authors:

Christopher Priest

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The Pleasures of a Futuroscope

Lord Dunsany

Authors:

Lord Dunsany

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Lord Dunsany

Authors:

Lord Dunsany

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Authors:

D. F. Jones

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Xeno

D. F. Jones

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Mickey Zucker Reichert

Child Of Thunder

Mickey Zucker Reichert

Authors:

Mickey Zucker Reichert

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Elizabeth Bear

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D. F. Jones

Authors:

D. F. Jones

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D. F. Jones

Authors:

D. F. Jones

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Colossus

D. F. Jones

Authors:

D. F. Jones

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Mickey Zucker Reichert

Authors:

Mickey Zucker Reichert

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Mickey Zucker Reichert

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Ken Grimwood

Authors:

Ken Grimwood

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George Turner

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George Turner

Authors:

George Turner

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E.E. 'Doc' Smith

Authors:

E.E. 'Doc' Smith

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